Hard Work in the Desert Our turn-key job is comprehensive, including engineering, EHT supply, power and control panels and commissioning. Project Data: - 42 km MI trace heaters - 760 customized tubular resistances - 28 power and control cabinets - 110 km power & control cable - 770 EHT circuits - 10 km cable trays

This is a 18 month project and the success of construction relies on teamwork. The team works Monday to Saturday including night shifts in the final construction phase.

Francisco Franco, SEPCOIII Worker, Paco Fernandez and Raul Garcia

eltherm is turn-key partner on the NOOR III solar project

NOOR IIIOuarzazate, Morocco

The Morocco Ouarzazate CSP complex at the junction of the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara Desert will be the lar-gest concentrated solar power plant in the world. Noor III is under construction and has a 250 m power tower, 150 MW output and 7.5 hours of storage.

Concentrated Solar Power Tower Concentrated solar power (CSP) systems generate solar power by using reflectors to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a small area. The Noor III tower is 250 m high. Electricity is generated by converting the concen-trated light into heat, which then drives a heat engine connected to an electrical power generator.

A solar power tower stands in a large field of dual-axis tracking reflectors (heliostats) that concentrate sunlight on a central receiver at the top of a tower; the receiver contains a fluid deposit is heated to 500–1000°C (932–1,832°F) and then used as a heat source for a power ge-neration or energy storage system. At Noor III molten salt is used as a storage medium.

Electrical Heat Tracing (EHT) is employed to prevent the solidification (at 260°C!) of these molten salts and to maintain an accurate process temperature throughout.

By the way: translated, the Arabian word “Noor“ means “light“.